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Yet another blog flog. O.O This one was already flogged somewhat, but...it's just so innane of her that I had to post the following.

http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2006/05/very-productive-day.html

Pages later, the notes would be book.

Uhhhh...grammar much???

I think I've been waiting a long time to get Edward back on paper.

Considering you said he'd be featured how many books ago, and he wasn't???

It's hard to believe he hasn't been in a book since OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY which was book nine.

It's hard to believe you are a published author, yet you clearly don't know how to use a comma.

But it was more than that on the marathon day, it was also that Richard hit the page, and therapy has done him good.

I'm dead sure that I'm not the only fan out there who is now whimpering in terror.

Hell, I don't know what happened, but the Richard who stepped on stage that day was calmer, more in control of himself, more certain of himself. Richard doesn't talk as directly to me as some of the characters, so his motives are often a mystery to me. But whatever the cause, it was nice to see.

Yet more evidence that this woman is crazy. Scary-crazy, too.

My greatest wish is to have all my characters happy.

No no no. Please. God no. KILL THEM, some of them at least, or torture them, or SOMETHING OTHER THAN SEX.

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"My greatest wish is to have all my characters happy."

What a crock. None of her characters are happy! They are all miserable because of Anita...

she meant all her characters, =all the ones that look like her = Anita
I am pretty sure she wrote somewhere that she couldn't kill any characters anymore because Anita would be upset and so she promised her not to kill them

My greatest wish is to have all my characters happy.

FURPILE!!!

Oh c'mon, you know she'd go there...

Shouldn't that be KILL THEM, some of them at least, or torture them,with SOMETHING OTHER THAN SEX.?

Richard doesn't talk as directly to me as some of the characters, so his motives are often a mystery to me.

ARGH ARGH ARGH DIE PLZ KTHXBI.

They are not PEOPLE, LKH, they are CHARACTERS. You CREATED them. Sure, I've sometime written stories and wondered "What would X character do?", but then I think about the kind of person they are, the things they've done in the past - I work it out, I don't pretend that they're enigmatic to me, THE BLOODY WRITER.

My greatest wish is to have all my characters happy.

May the spirit of Joss Whedon kill you while you sleep!

I've just finished watching seasons 3-5 of Angel and have had my emotions not just trashed, but ripped apart, spat on, decapitated, brought back from the dead and stapled back on inside out, and as horrible as it's been to be this moody and weepy - I cannot have enough love for Joss. Because he's totally right - happy people make for boring television, and the same can be said in writing.

Oh, wangsty people can get boring too, but when the wangst is just right - when the wangst rips your heart out and feeds it back to you - it's pure gold.

So I'm just going to imagine Joss leaping through a window, and decapitating Ms Hamilton right now, making some witty quip, setting fire to her corpse while Joss's minions do battle with Jon and Darla, and afterward, they'll set course for Cada de la Anne Rice.

"My greatest wish is to have all my characters happy."

So... does this mean the "bad guys" aren't really her characters? They're unhappy in the end, after all. Though I've noticed they usually either end up dead on "redeemed", and I do use the term -very- loosely.

The blog being flogged here can be found at http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/index.php/site/a_very_productive_day/

Friday, May 26, 2006

A very productive day
The day before I got over forty pages. It was an amazing day. I would write until I thought surely I'm finished, but the ideas pushed so hard they pulled me back to the computer to just make some notes. Pages later, the notes would be book. All day I kept walking away thinking I was done, then drawn back for a just a little more. When I hit forty pages, I thought, well this was great but tomorrow will be a bust. It usually is after a day when the muse sings that loud in your head. But lo and behold I got thirteen pages done yesterday. Now, when those pages were done, I was tired, and ready to stop. But the fact that I had such a productive day after having a freaking amazingly productive day the day before says something about where this book is. It's ready to be written. I think I've been waiting a long time to get Edward back on paper. He's such a strong character in my head that sometimes I forget how long it's been since he's been in a book. It's hard to believe he hasn't been in a book since OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY which was book nine. But it was more than that on the marathon day, it was also that Richard hit the page, and therapy has done him good. I think DANSE MACABRE, or events in the book, made Richard have to look more realistically at what he can expect between himself and Anita. Not what he wants, but what is really possible. Hell, I don't know what happened, but the Richard who stepped on stage that day was calmer, more in control of himself, more certain of himself. Richard doesn't talk as directly to me as some of the characters, so his motives are often a mystery to me. But whatever the cause, it was nice to see. It was nice to write, and in some ways, as with Edward, it feels like Richard in this scene has also been a long time coming. My greatest wish is to have all my characters happy. I don't know if that's truly possible, but at least everyone was getting along that day.
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Posted by LKH on 05/26 at 05:02 AM